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EGYPTIAN authorities have arrested the brother of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri, a security official has said. He said Mohammed al-Zawahri,...

Egyptian security forces escort an Islamist supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood out of the al-Fatah mosque Saturday. (Photo: Hussein Tallal,...

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has dissociated himself from a paid advertisement on his rumoured presidential ambition in 2015....

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is to prosecute 72 out of some 93,000 cases of double registration recorded in...

The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the release of four Thai nationals, abducted on Aug.9 at Buguma in the...

The Ogun State Muslims Pilgrims Welfare Board said on Saturday that the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria(NAHCON) would subsidise foreign...

The Ogun Government on Friday demolished its old Secretariat at Oke-Ilewo in Abeokuta. Mr Mohammed Affez, Lead Urban Designer and...

Six unidentified people have been confirmed dead, while 21 others were critically injured in a multiple accident that occurred on...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on Friday commiserated with the family of the Deputy Speaker of the Jigawa State House of...

Former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, on Friday said Nigeria would not disintegrate by 2015 contrary to predictions in some...

President Goodluck Jonathan (M) joggling the Socket Football To Electricity (a new invention) presented to him by the Uncharted Play...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday said it had registered two new political parties. The INEC Secretary, Mrs....

A Port Harcourt High Court on Friday declared Gov. Chibuike Amaechi’s eight-man Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate the crisis...

The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), has given tanker drivers parking along the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos,...

The Imo Police Command said on Friday that three of the five-man gang that allegedly kidnapped the wife of the...

Egypt's presidency on Friday harshly answered U.S. President Barack Obama's criticism, saying that it valued his concern but feared that...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday approved the appointment of Dr Pius Osunyikanmi, as the new Director-General and Chief Executive Officer...

The hope of thousands of public secondary school students who sat for the last May/June West African Examinations Council (WAEC)...

Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Thursday in Abuja gave the assurance that the Federal Government would continue to constructively engage women...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said its governors are not against autonomy for local governments, as reported in a...